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Stopping Windows from running unwanted programs and exerting more control over your printer can improve the performance of your office IT, this article suggests. Improving key components, such as graphics boards, can also provide a significant boost, it suggests.

Amazon Web Services has introduced a cloud-based graphics processing unit designed to enable users to transition the heavy lifting associated with media processing and rendering off-site, which in turn will free up on-site PC resources.

Shipments of graphics processors during the third quarter came in at 116 million units, which represents a 10% improvement over the comparable window of time in 2009 but a 1% drop from the second quarter of this year, according to Jon Peddie Research. A drop-off in laptop sales was blamed for the sequential dip.

Mobile tech, unstructured information and cloud computing are among the top security concerns for senior-level IT executives at federal agencies, a survey finds. Jolie O'Dell asks whether these fears are proportional to the risks these technologies carry. O'Dell notes that government chief information officer Vivek Kundra wrote recently that "our policies lag behind new trends, causing unnecessary restrictions on the use of new technology."

Cloud-computing and software-as-a-service options are just new forms of technology outsourcing, argues Scott Lowe, chief information officer at Westminster College. When a company is considering these technologies, they should think about the decision the same way they'd consider a traditional outsourcing proposal, he writes. Comparative costs, time constraints and security are some of the main elements that go into the choice for an organization, he writes.